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	<div id="pagetitle"><h1>YUI Library Examples: Menu Family: Basic Menu From Markup</h1></div>
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	<h1>Menu Family: Basic Menu From Markup</h1>
	
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	<p>
This example demonstrates how to create a Menu instance using existing markup 
on the page.
</p>
<p id="clicknote">
<em>Note:</em> By default clicking outside of a Menu instance will hide it.  
Additionally, MenuItem instances without a submenu or a URL to navigate to will 
hide their parent Menu instance when clicked.  Click the "Show Menu" button 
below to make the Menu instance visible if it is hidden.
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    /*
         Initialize and render the Menu when its elements are ready 
         to be scripted.
    */

    YAHOO.util.Event.onContentReady("basicmenu", function () {
    
        /*
             Instantiate a Menu:  The first argument passed to the 
             constructor is the id of the element in the page 
             representing the Menu; the second is an object literal 
             of configuration properties.
        */

        var oMenu = new YAHOO.widget.Menu("basicmenu", { fixedcenter: true });


        /*
             Call the "render" method with no arguments since the 
             markup for this Menu instance is already exists in the page.
        */

        oMenu.render();


        YAHOO.util.Event.addListener("menutoggle", "click", oMenu.show, null, oMenu);
    
    });
    
</script>

<button id="menutoggle" type="button">Show Menu</button>

<div id="basicmenu" class="yuimenu">
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            <li class="yuimenuitem"><a class="yuimenuitemlabel" href="http://mail.yahoo.com">Yahoo! Mail</a></li>
            <li class="yuimenuitem"><a class="yuimenuitemlabel" href="http://addressbook.yahoo.com">Yahoo! Address Book</a></li>
            <li class="yuimenuitem"><a class="yuimenuitemlabel" href="http://calendar.yahoo.com">Yahoo! Calendar</a></li>
            <li class="yuimenuitem"><a class="yuimenuitemlabel" href="http://notepad.yahoo.com">Yahoo! Notepad</a></li>
        </ul>            
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	<h2 class="first">Creating a Menu from existing markup</h2>
<p>
The markup for a Menu control follows that of 
<a href="../../docs/YAHOO.widget.Module.html">YAHOO.widget.Module</a>, with its 
body element (<code>&#60;div class="bd"&#62;</code>) containing a list element 
(<code>&#60;ul&#62;</code>).  
</p>
<p>
Each item in a Menu is represented by a list item element 
(<code>&#60;li class="yuimenuitem"&#62;</code>), each of which has a 
label (<code>&#60;a class="yuimenuitemlabel"&#62;</code>) that can 
contain plain text or HTML.
</p>
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        <ul class="first-of-type">
            <li class="yuimenuitem">
                <a class="yuimenuitemlabel" href="http://mail.yahoo.com">
                    Yahoo! Mail
                </a>
            </li>
            <li class="yuimenuitem">
                <a class="yuimenuitemlabel" href="http://addressbook.yahoo.com">
                    Yahoo! Address Book
                </a>
            </li>
            <li class="yuimenuitem">
                <a class="yuimenuitemlabel" href="http://calendar.yahoo.com">
                    Yahoo! Calendar
                </a>
            </li>
            <li class="yuimenuitem">
                <a class="yuimenuitemlabel" href="http://notepad.yahoo.com">
                    Yahoo! Notepad
                </a>
            </li>
        </ul>            
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<p>
To instantiate a Menu based on existing HTML, pass the id of its corresponding 
HTML element (in this case "basicmenu") to the Menu constructor  
(<code>YAHOO.widget.Menu</code>) then call the <code>render</code> method with 
no arguments.
</p>
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/*
     Instantiate a Menu:  The first argument passed to the 
     constructor is the id of the element in the page 
     representing the Menu; the second is an object literal 
     of configuration properties.
*/

var oMenu = new YAHOO.widget.Menu("basicmenu", { fixedcenter: true });


/*
     Call the "render" method with no arguments since the 
     markup for this Menu instance is already exists in the page.
*/

oMenu.render();
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<h2>Configuration for This Example</h2>

<p>You can load the necessary JavaScript and CSS for this example from Yahoo's servers.  <a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/articles/hosting/?menu&MIN#configure">Click here to load the YUI Dependency Configurator with all of this example's dependencies preconfigured</a>.</p>

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						<h3 class='firstContent'>Menu Family Examples:</h3>
	
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								<li class='selected'><a href='../menu/example01.html'>Basic Menu From Markup</a></li><li><a href='../menu/example02.html'>Basic Menu From JavaScript</a></li><li><a href='../menu/example03.html'>Grouped Menu Items Using Markup</a></li><li><a href='../menu/example04.html'>Grouped Menu Items Using JavaScript</a></li><li><a href='../menu/example05.html'>Grouped Menu Items With Titles From Markup</a></li><li><a href='../menu/example06.html'>Grouped Menu Items With Titles From JavaScript</a></li><li><a href='../menu/example07.html'>Multi-tiered Menu From Markup</a></li><li><a href='../menu/example08.html'>Multi-tiered Menu From JavaScript</a></li><li><a href='../menu/example09.html'>Handling Menu Click Events</a></li><li><a href='../menu/example10.html'>Listening For Menu Events</a></li><li><a href='../menu/example11.html'>MenuItem Configuration Properties</a></li><li><a href='../menu/example12.html'>Setting Menu Configuration Properties At Runtime</a></li><li><a href='../menu/leftnavfrommarkup.html'>Website Left Nav With Submenus Built From Markup</a></li><li><a href='../menu/leftnavfromjs.html'>Website Left Nav With Submenus From JavaScript</a></li><li><a href='../menu/topnavfrommarkup.html'>Website Top Nav With Submenus Built From Markup</a></li><li><a href='../menu/topnavfromjs.html'>Website Top Nav With Submenus From JavaScript</a></li><li><a href='../menu/leftnavfrommarkupwithanim.html'>Website Left Nav Using Animation With Submenus Built From Markup</a></li><li><a href='../menu/leftnavfromjswithanim.html'>Website Left Nav Using Animation With Submenus From JavaScript</a></li><li><a href='../menu/topnavfrommarkupwithanim.html'>Website Top Nav Using Animation With Submenus Built From Markup</a></li><li><a href='../menu/topnavfromjswithanim.html'>Website Top Nav Using Animation With Submenus From JavaScript</a></li><li><a href='../menu/contextmenu.html'>Context Menu</a></li><li><a href='../menu/tablecontextmenu.html'>Adding A Context Menu To A Table</a></li><li><a href='../menu/treeviewcontextmenu.html'>Adding A Context Menu To A TreeView</a></li><li><a href='../menu/programsmenu.html'>OS-Style Programs Menu</a></li><li><a href='../menu/applicationmenubar.html'>Application Menubar</a></li><li><a href='../menu/menuwaiaria.html'>Using the Menu ARIA Plugin</a></li><li><a href='../button/button-menu-swap.html'>Replacing the content of a Button's Menu (included with examples for Button Control)</a></li><li><a href='../button/button-menu-select.html'>Using A Menu Button To Replace A &#60;select&#62; Element (included with examples for Button Control)</a></li><li><a href='../button/button-ariaplugin.html'>Using the Button ARIA Plugin (included with examples for Button Control)</a></li><li><a href='../datatable/dt_contextmenu.html'>Context Menu Integration (included with examples for DataTable Control)</a></li><li><a href='../button/btn_example07.html'>Menu Buttons (included with examples for Button Control)</a></li><li><a href='../button/btn_example08.html'>Split Buttons (included with examples for Button Control)</a></li><li><a href='../button/btn_example11.html'>Color Picker Button (included with examples for Button Control)</a></li><li><a href='../button/btn_example12.html'>Fixed Width Menu Button (included with examples for Button Control)</a></li><li><a href='../button/btn_example14.html'>Slider Button (included with examples for Button Control)</a></li><li><a href='../layout/menu_layout.html'>Layout with Menu Controls (included with examples for Layout Manager)</a></li><li><a href='../profilerviewer/pv-api.html'>Using the ProfilerViewer API while Profiling the YUI Menu Control (included with examples for ProfilerViewer Control)</a></li>							</ul>
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						<h3>More Menu Family Resources:</h3>
						<ul>
							<li><a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/menu/">User's Guide</a> (external)</li>
						<li><a href="../../docs/module_menu.html">API Documentation</a></li>
                            
                            
							<li><a href="http://yuiblog.com/assets/pdf/cheatsheets/menu.pdf">Cheat Sheet PDF</a> (external)</li></ul>
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